This is a self published book, written for "Pleco People", a
fraternity to which I freely admit membership. This then was the book my
similarly afflicted sucker mouth aficionados and I had been waiting for, or was
it? At first glance I was terribly disappointed, the book was all text, no
contents or index pages in sight - only a few diagrams and crude line drawings.
I was looking for pictures of baby Panque, gold nugget pleco eggs and the like,
but was faced with what essentially resembled a University dissertation. Then I
started reading: reading and reading more. I devoured the book in one
enlightening afternoon.

The content of this book is fundamentally excellent, though
there are typographical errors left right and centre and the text is hard to
read on account of its being in a large font double spaced across an entire A4
page, but is it interesting and above all thought provoking. The spawning
details of 18 species, ranging from commonly bred Bristlenose and Whiptails,
thru Zebra Plecos and Gold Nuggets to ultimately Blue Eyed Plecos are featured
in the latter part of the book.

Anyone keeping "L" number Loricariids will benefit from this
book. I would go as far as to state that it will change the way you keep these
fish. Besides that it describes in detail how to go about breeding many catfish
that are traditionally thought of as "unspawnable", it throws up some great
ideas about tank setup, rewrites a number of rules and each page rarely fails
to turn up some (gold) nugget of information for the pleco fan. If some one
told you to feed your Blue eyed Pleco dog food, you'd worry about their sanity,
worry that is until the fish spawn for you.

In summary, it is better this book is published without
photographs and expert publishing know-how than not at all. Its not pretty, but
it's a big step forward in the published knowledge on these fish and for that
alone must be commended.